Today’s Washington Post state’s that kids are still reading the longtime faves, Dr. Seuss, E.B. White and others. J.K. Rawlings fares very well for kids in 5th grade and older. Renaissance Learning has compiled data taken from online quizzes children answer about the books they read. Data is broken down by age, sex, region, and achievement. Scanning the lists of books it seems to me many of these books are classroom reading assignments. It’s not shown what kids are reading for fun but my guess is it’s not Elie Wiesel but rather Harry Potter.
Check out the original report here.
I didn’t look at the site you referenced but I know that my daughter has been working on reading Prince Caspian (she has to read it before we’ll take her to see it) and Call of the Wild. My son has been reading Eregon of late plus the second book while he waits for the third book to come out this fall.
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